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Detailed record for Royal 17 E VII
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-264 |
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| Author |
Guyart des Moulins |
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| Title |
La Bible historiale complétée (Genesis - Psalms) |
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| Origin |
France, Central (Paris?) |
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| Date |
1357 |
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| Language |
French |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature partially in grisaille, colours and gold, with a full border containing historiated medallions, at the beginning of the text (f. 1). 51 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille, colours and gold, and large foliate initials in colours and gold with marginal extensions forming partial borders, some with dragons, at the beginning of each day of creation and each biblical book. Sketches (ff. 16, 17, 17v, 24v) or written instruction to illuminators (ff. 11v). Small foliate initial in colours and gold throughout the text. Initials in gold with black pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titles in gold and blue with red and black pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in red and blue. Catchword decorated with animals or human figures and highlighted in yellow (e. g., ff. 12v, 36v, 84v). Cadels and descenders in the form of leaves or animal or human heads (e. g., ff. 52, 63v, 93v, 94, etc.), or marginal drawings (e.g., ff. 154, 201, 206). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
390 x 290 (260 x 190), in three columns |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 1-241 |
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| Author |
Guyart des Moulins |
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| Title |
La Bible historiale complétée (Proverbs - Revelation) |
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| Origin |
France, Central (Paris?) |
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| Date |
1357 |
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| Language |
French |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature in four compartments, partially in grisaille, colours and gold, with a full bar border with a bas-de-page scene and birds, at the beginning of the text. 36 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille, colours and gold, and large foliate initials in colours and gold with marginal extensions forming partial borders, some with dragons, at the beginning of each biblical book. Sketches for illuminators (ff. 102v, 105, 110, 113v). Small foliate initial in colours and gold throughout the text. Initials in gold with black pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titles in gold and blue with red and black pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in red and blue. Catchword decorated with animals or human figures and highlighted in yellow (e. g., ff. 12v, 192v). Cadels and descenders in the form of leaves or animal or human heads (e.g., ff. 87, 96, 101). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
395 x 295 (260 x 190), in three columns |
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| Official foliation |
vol. 1: ff. i + 264 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, f. i is a medieval parchment flyleaf); vol. 2: ff. 342 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; f. 342 is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather with the royal arms and a date of 1757; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Completed on 12 January, 1357: colophon: 'Escript l'an Cinquante et six / le douzieme jour de Janvier' (vol. 1, fol. 230); an acrostic, the initials of which when read backwards give the date 'mile trois cens cinquante sept' (vol. 2, f. 241).
Charles V (b. 1338, d. 1380), perhaps made for him as the dauphin of France (1349-1364): a lion used as his symbol (vol. 2, f. 1).
Thomas Langton (b. c.1430, d. 1501), bishop of Winchester and archbishop-elect of Canterbury, several times ambassador to France (1467-1485), inscribed with his name 'Thomas langton' (f. vol. 2, f. 242).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (vol. 1, f. i verso), a note in his hand (vol. 1, f. 9); included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no.6439;
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 3.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Contains Guyard des Moulins, 'La Bible historiale complétée', a French adaptation of Petrus Comestors's 'Historia scholastica'; bound in two volumes (volume I: Genesis-Psalms; volume II: Proverbs-Revelation).
According to Avril 1970 and O'Meara 2001, illuminated by Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy.
Catchwords and bifolium signatures. |
| Select bibliography |
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9.
Samuel Berger, La Bible franc¸aise au moyen a^ge. E´tude sur les plus anciennes versions de la Bible e´crites en prose de langue d’oi¨l (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1884), pp. 203, 214, 381, 388.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 245.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 112.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), VI: French: Mid 14th to 16th Centuries, pl. 2.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 260-61.
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l’exposition de manuscrits franc¸ais a` peintures organise´e a` la Grenville Library, British Museum, en janvier-mars, 1932 (Paris: Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits a` Peintures, 1933), p. 28, pl. XXXIII.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), pp. 20, 204, fig. 375, 383, 384.
La Librairie de Charles V (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1968), no. 166 [exhibition catalogue].
François Avril, 'Une Bible Historiale de Charles V', Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunst Sammlungen, 15/16 (1970),45-76 (pp. 45, n. 5, 49, n. 9).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 904.
Patrick M. de Winter, 'The Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy: The Copyist Jean l'Avenant and his Patrons at the French Court', Speculum, 57 (1982) 786-843 (p. 794, n. 31).
Christopher De Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, (Oxford : Phaidon, 1986), p. 148.
Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West, I: The Medieval Book, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), no. 21.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 105.
Akiko Komada, 'Les illustrations de la Bible historiale: les manuscrits réalisés dans le Nord', 4 vols (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Paris IV, 2000), III, no. 36.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxvii, n. 17.
Carra Ferguson O'Meara, Monarchy and Consent: The Coronation Book of Charles V of France: British Library MS Tiberius B VIII (London : Harvey Miller, 2001), pp. 265-71, 332 n. 7, ils 101, 102.
Katarzyna Plonka Balus, Vita Christi [et] Vengance de Nostre Seigneur Jhesu Christ: Zagadnienia tresci, stylu I funkcji miniatur rekopisu 2919 w Bibliotece Czartoryskich (Cracow: Universitas, 2004), pp. 105-06.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 65.
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 22.
Kathryn A. Smith, ‘Found in Translation: Images Visionary and Visceral in the Welles-Ros Bible’, Gesta 59: 2 (2020), 91-130 (p. 92). |
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Part 1
ff. 1-264 |
| Guyart des Moulins La Bible historiale complétée (Genesis - Psalms) |
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f. 1
Solomon |
f. 1
Trinity |
f. 1
Trinity |
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f. 2v
Peter Comestor at work |
f. 2v
Peter Comestor giving his book |
f. 3
God creating the Earth |
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f. 3v
God dividing light and darkness |
f. 3v
God creating the skies |
f. 4
God creating the waters |
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f. 4v
God creating the sun and the moon |
f. 5
God creating animals |
f. 5v
God creating birds and bees |
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f. 6v
God seated |
f. 6v
Creation of Eve |
f. 7
Tree of Knowledge |
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f. 7
Tree of Knowledge |
f. 7v
The Fall |
f. 8v
Explusion of Adam and Eve |
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f. 9
Sacrifices of Cain and Abel |
f. 9v
Cain murdering Abel |
f. 11v
The Ark |
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f. 16
God calling Abraham |
f. 17
Abraham defeating the kings |
f. 17v
Abraham and Isaac |
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f. 17v
Abraham and Isaac |
f. 24v
Birth of Esau and Jacob |
f. 27
Jacob's dream |
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f. 27
Jacob's dream |
f. 32
Sale of Joseph |
f. 41
Moses before Pharoah |
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f. 53
Moses receiving the law |
f. 65
Moses in a priestly robe |
f. 74
Moses bidden to number the people |
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f. 91v
Moses speaking to the people |
f. 104v
Joshua bidden to cross the Jordan |
f. 111
Battle with the Canaanites |
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f. 121v
Hannah praying |
f. 134v
David mourning for Saul |
f. 142v
Death of Absalom |
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f. 147v
Anointing of Solomon |
f. 166v
Elijah being carried up to heaven |
f. 166v
Elijah being carried up to heaven |
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f. 186v
Job, his wife and friends |
f. 197
Job being served by his sons |
f. 198
Captivity of Tobit |
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f. 202v
Death of Gedaliah |
f. 214
Building of Ecbatane |
f. 217
Judith slaying Holofernes |
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f. 222
Esther and Ahasuerus |
f. 227
Alexander kneeling to the high priest |
f. 231
David playing musical instruments |
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f. 235v
David pointing to his eye |
f. 238
David pointing to his lips |
f. 241
The Fool |
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f. 241
The Fool |
f. 243v
David drowning |
f. 247
David playing the bells |
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f. 250
Two singers at a lectern |
f. 253v
The Trinity |
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Part 2
ff. 1-241 |
| Guyart des Moulins La Bible historiale complétée (Proverbs - Revelation) |
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f. 1
Solomon |
f. 1
Lion, dog and four apes |
f. 11v
Solomon enthroned |
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f. 14v
Solomon |
f. 16
God speaking to Solomon |
f. 21
Solomon enthroned |
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f. 36v
Martyrdom of Isaiah |
f. 54v
God speaking to Jeremiah |
f. 73
Jeremiah writing |
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f. 74v
Baruch writing |
f. 75
Baruch teaching |
f. 76v
Jeremiah speaking |
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f. 77
Ezekiel reading |
f. 92v
King seated |
f. 99
Hosea seated |
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f. 101v
Joel seated |
f. 102v
Amos sleeping |
f. 104v
Obadiah |
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f. 105
Jonah and the whale |
f. 105v
Micah |
f. 107
Nahum |
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f. 107v
Habbakuk and Daniel |
f. 108v
Zephaniah |
f. 109v
Haggai |
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f. 110
Zechariah writing |
f. 112v
Malachai |
f. 113v
King receiving head from body. |
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f. 125v
Messenger |
f. 133v
Matthew |
f. 134
Matthew |
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f. 134
Matthew and the Nativity |
f. 134
Nativity |
f. 134v
Baptism of Christ |
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f. 135
Temptation of Christ |
f. 149
Mark |
f. 159v
Luke |
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f. 177
John |
f. 189v
Paul |
f. 217v
Apostle preaching |
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f. 235
John with chalice |
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